Mold for veneering lumber



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W. E. BROOK.

MOLD FOR VENEERING LUMBER. 7 No. 445,606. Patented Feb. 8,1891.

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\VILLIAM E. BROOK, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

, MOLD FOR VENEERING LUMBER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,605, dated February 3, 1891.

'llpplication filed April 3, 1890. Serial No. 346,404. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. BROOK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Plainfield, in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Molds for Veneering Lumber, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a mold designed to be used in the process of applying a veneer to either surface and the edges of planks or boards, its essential features being hereinafter fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents an end view of the mold closed and with a board in position therein. Fig. 2 represents a like view of the mold opened. Fig. 3 represents an end view of a modification in the shape thereof. Fig. 4 represents a plan or top view, partly in section, of a portion thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The letters A B indicate two sections into which the mold is divided longitudinally with the sections alongside of each other, and 0 indicates one of a series of joints by which the sections are hinged together at the bottom of the mold for permitting them to swing in vertical planes to and from each other. Each of the sections A B is constructed to conform in cross-section with one edge of the board D that is to be veneered, and in the example shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the sections have respectively an angular projection e and angular cavity 6', while in the example shown in Fig. 3 they have respectively a tongue f and groove f, these parts e e or ff being at the opposite sides of the mold and joined by a flat intervening surface e or f One of the mold-sections-namely,A-is also formed with a shoulder s at the top of the projection e or tongue f to form an abutment for the veneer 0, that may be introduced in the mold, and to both ends of the section Bis attached one end of a strip, as at G, which indicates the strip at one end of the mold, the other or free end of which strip projects from such section and enters a recess 1 of the hinged section A, thus intersecting the line of division between the sections, said strip and recess forming jointly a stop for regulat is inclined outward and downward, while in 1 the example shown in Fig. 3 the upper edge of the recess is inclined inward and upward for graduating such less width of the strip, or vice versa.

When the mold is applied to use, the sections A B are spread apart or opened as far as the stop (ll may allow, and a veneer cut to the proper size is laid in the mold with its one edge abutting against the shoulders and its other edge against the base of the cavity 6' or groove f, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The board properly glued is then adj usted between the mold-sections, and the latter are returned to a normal or closed position, whereby the veneer is shaped to the board and firmly secured thereto. By regulating the opened position of the mold-sec tions they are adapted to receive and hold the veneer in proper relation to the board subsequently introduced between them for bringing the veneer upon the desired portions of the board, especially when the veneer is laid in the mold, so as to abut against the shoulder 8, as indicated in Fig. 2, while the adjustment of the sections, moreover, is thereby facilitated.

'By the construction of the mold-sections with an angular tin or projection e and corresponding cavity e they readilyadapt themselves to any slight inequalities of dressing in the lumber and acquire a tendency to firmly interlock with the board when closed,so that no clamp is required to be used after the veneer has been shaped and while it is drying on the board. In practice the mold is laid on a bed which shall permit the joints 0 to sink therein, as shown in Fig. 1, bringing the mold in contact with the bed mainly at its outer lower corners, and to insure the condition last named the bottom of both mold-sections may be inclined in an inward and upward direc tion, as shown in Fig. 1.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure mold-sections, consisting of an end recess in by Letters Patent, is one section and a strip of the othersection en- A lumber-veneering mold having two sec tering said recess, forming jointly a stop for tions hinged together at the bottom of the regulating; the opened position of the mold- 5 mold to swing in vertical planes, each consections, substantially as and for the purpose I5 strueted to conform with one edgeof a board, described.

and one constructed at its upper part with a \VILLIAM E. BROOK. shoulder forming an abutment for the veneer 7 tnesses: introduced in the mold, in combination with FRANCIS (J. BOWEN,

:0 a stop for regulating the opened position of the CHAS. \VAHLERS. 

